Jurish

Jurish
Other transcription(s)
 • Arabic جُريش
Jurish
Location of Jurish within Palestine
Coordinates: 32°06′09″N 35°19′20″E / 32.10250°N 35.32222°E / 32.10250; 35.32222Coordinates: 32°06′09″N 35°19′20″E / 32.10250°N 35.32222°E / 32.10250; 35.32222
Palestine grid 180/167
Governorate Nablus
Government
 • Type Village council
Population (2006)
 • Jurisdiction 1,384
Name meaning Jurish, from personal name[1]

Jurish (Arabic: جُريش‎) is a Palestinian town in the Nablus Governorate in northern West Bank, located 27 kilometers Southeast of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), the town had a population of 1,384 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.[2]

Location

Jurish is a located 14.24 kilometers (8.85 mi) southeast of Nablus. It is bordered by Tal al Khashabe to the east, Aqraba to the north, Qabalan to the north and west, Talfit to the west, and Qusra and Majdal Bani Fadil to the south.[3]

History

It has been suggested that: "a sacred place to the north-east, which last appears to be the ancient Capharetæa (Kefr 'Atya[4]), a Samaritan town, mentioned by Justin Martyr.[5][6] The two sites are, in fact, one, and the ruin apparently preserves the old name."[6][7]

Ottoman era

In 1517, the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as Juris, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. The population was 16 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a fixed tax for people of Nablus area; a total of 2,000 akçe.[8] In the same tax-records, nearby Kafr 'Atiyya (at grid 181/167) had a population of 40 Muslim households, and paid 9,000 akçe in revenue.[9]

In 1870 Victor Guérin came from the north, noted first the ruins of Kefr A'athia, where corn was planted among the ruins. He then came to the spring Ain Jurish, where water was collected in a rectangular basin. He then continued to the top of the hill, where the village Jurish was situated. It had once been much larger, but was now reduced to about 20 inhabited houses. A shrine was consecrated to a Sheikh Hatem.[10]

In 1882, the Palestine Exploration Fund's "Survey of Western Palestine" (SWP) described Jurish as: "A small village on a hill-top, with olives to the east."[6]

British Mandate era

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jurish had a population of 195 Muslims,[11] increasing in the 1931 census when Jurish, together with Kafr 'Atiya had to 236 Muslim inhabitants, in 59 houses.[12]

In the 1945 statistics the population of Jurish (with Kafr Atiya) was 340 Muslims,[13] while the total land area was 8,207 dunams, according to an official land and population survey.[14] Of this, 1,358 dunams were allocated for plantations and irrigable land, 4,249 for cereals,[15] while 14 dunams were classified as built-up areas.[16]

Jordanian era

In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Jurish came under Jordanian rule.

The Jordanian census of 1961 found 419 inhabitants.[17]

Post-1967

Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Jurish has been under Israeli occupation.

After the 1995 accords, 62% of village land has been defined as Area B land, while the remaining 38% is Area C.[18] Israel has confiscated 17 dunums of Jurish village land for the construction of the Israeli settlement of Migdalim, in addition to confiscating land for the road Route 505.[19]

References

  1. ↑ Palmer, 1881, p. 253
  2. ↑ Projected Mid -Year Population for Nablus Governorate by Locality 2004- 2006 Archived 2008-02-07 at the Wayback Machine. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics
  3. ↑ Jurish Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 4
  4. ↑ Kefr ’Atya, the village of 'Atya, according to Palmer, 1881, p. 254
  5. ↑ Reland, 1714, p. 688
  6. 1 2 3 Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 386
  7. ↑ Conder and Kitchener, 1882, SWP II, p. 391
  8. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 135
  9. ↑ Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 132
  10. ↑ Guérin, 1875, pp. 12-13
  11. ↑ Barron, 1923, Table IX, p. 25
  12. ↑ Mills, 1932, p. 62
  13. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 18
  14. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 60
  15. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 106
  16. ↑ Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 156
  17. ↑ Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics, 1964, p. 25
  18. ↑ Jurish Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 14
  19. ↑ Jurish Village Profile, ARIJ, p. 15

Bibliography

  • Barron, J.B., ed. (1923). Palestine: Report and General Abstracts of the Census of 1922. Government of Palestine.
  • Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1882). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. 2. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Government of Jordan, Department of Statistics (1964). First Census of Population and Housing. Volume I: Final Tables; General Characteristics of the Population (PDF).
  • Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics (1945). Village Statistics, April, 1945.
  • Guérin, V. (1875). Description Géographique Historique et Archéologique de la Palestine (in French). 2: Samarie, pt. 2. Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale.
  • Hadawi, S. (1970). Village Statistics of 1945: A Classification of Land and Area ownership in Palestine. Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center.
  • Hütteroth, Wolf-Dieter; Abdulfattah, Kamal (1977). Historical Geography of Palestine, Transjordan and Southern Syria in the Late 16th Century. Erlanger Geographische Arbeiten, Sonderband 5. Erlangen, Germany: Vorstand der Fränkischen Geographischen Gesellschaft. ISBN 3-920405-41-2.
  • Mills, E., ed. (1932). Census of Palestine 1931. Population of Villages, Towns and Administrative Areas. Jerusalem: Government of Palestine.
  • Palmer, E.H. (1881). The Survey of Western Palestine: Arabic and English Name Lists Collected During the Survey by Lieutenants Conder and Kitchener, R. E. Transliterated and Explained by E.H. Palmer. Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
  • Relandi, H. (1714). Hadriani Relandi Palaestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata (in Latin). 2. Trajecti Batavorum : Ex libraria Guilielmi Broedelet.
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